Hyphen Toggle Action for Mac

Overview

What Hyphen Toggle does

Switch spaces and hyphens on each selected line. It runs locally and handles the selected text without contacting a service.

Category	Text Editing & Formatting
Action type	JavaScript
Default result	Replace selected text by default
Internet	Not required

Example

Action and outcome

Hyphen Toggle example
Action	Outcome
Hyphen ToggleSelected text: one two three-four	one-two three four

Workflow

Use Hyphen Toggle

Follow these steps to switch spaces and hyphens on each selected line with ActionClip.

Select the text you want to use.
Choose Hyphen Toggle from ActionClip.
In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

Before you start: No setup required.
Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

JavaScript definition

function run(selected_text) {
  return selected_text.replace(/^(\s*)(.*?)(\s*)$/gm, function (_, before, content, after) {
    if (/[^\S\r\n]/u.test(content)) {
      return before + content.replace(/[^\S\r\n]+/gu, "-") + after;
    }
    return before + content.replace(/-+/gu, " ") + after;
  });
}